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Zune 30 Failing EVERYWHERE, All At Once!

mkrishnan said:
No, I don't particularly disbelieve it. Although I will make the alternate case that, as there are hardly any Zune users to begin with, the impact on MS might not be so bad. I can hardly imagine Zunes are being sold by word of mouth. Hardly anyone even knows one person with a Zune, let alone people who have Zunes who know people who also have Zunes.
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I know 5 or 6 folks who have Zunes, but you are right that none of them know each other. They do seem to like them well enough though.

SLC
 
I knew all of that "squirting" was going to catch up with them sooner or later....

Ah, I found a fitting term for it: BSOD = Brown Squirt of Death
 
How typical, while most of the world avoids Y2K problems, leave it to Micro$oft to fall victim.

Glad I never considered buying a, what is it called again...oh a Zune.
 
I knew this was missing from this thread. I finally found the right picture to speak a thousand words. Surprised no one has posted this pic yet.
 

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In one word: Ouch.

The Xbox 360's being called the 'cheap PS3' lately, now the Zune's could be called the 'cheap iPod'. Microsoft's rep is going down fast.

I could see them trying to cover up this news by releasing a new beta of Windows 7.
 
Perhaps this is intentional. Microsoft never imagined that the Zune would last this long. So they placed an automatic kill switch for 2009 to deactivate their returns warehouse. They figured that if they had actually tricked any one into buying one that this kill switch would end their misery in 2009. Happy New Year!

Oh, how many Zunes are out there? 20? 50? The problem is not as widespread as the article would have you believe ;)
 
I know what this is! Microsoft programmers thought they would play a little publicity joke and at midnight tonight when all eyes are on the Zune problem, the Zune 30 will pop on at new years and play a celebration video! Yea Happy New Year! - From Microsoft! ;)
 
92WardSenatorFE said:
Apparently if you call Zune support...


http://www.zunescene.mobi/forums/index.php?topic=43550.216

Gotta love M$ support :D
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Really??? Are you serious??

neiltc13 said:
Why do people replace the "s" in Microsoft with $?

Has the company done anything to deserve this or is it just people being angered by a company being successful in achieving its duty to perform well for its shareholders?
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You do realize your on a Mac forum, so people are generally biased.
 
neiltc13 said:
Has the company done anything to deserve this or is it just people being angered by a company being successful in achieving its duty to perform well for its shareholders?
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We're not shareholders (most of us, anyway). So consumers tend to get upset when Microsoft spends more time catering to its shareholders than fixing its crappy products. :)
 
P-Worm said:
:D

Check out google's top searches today

Particularly numbers, 4, 11, 12, 13, 19, 29, 32, 35, 39, 40, 46, 48, 64, 69, 75, 79, 80, and 84.

P-Worm
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Now that's CRAZY! Great find. I think this will go down as one of the largest New Years blunders ever, although if it was an iPod it would be 100X worse because of the number of people effected, but still this is Billy Fuccillo Sized HUGE.;)

liquidtrend said:
i wish i knew where my 30gb zune was.
i think it is somewhere under my bed.
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Won't do you much good looking...
 
Appears to be just Zune30, my Zune80 is just fine and have never had a problem with it. Sometimes I wish it had a phone so I could ditch my iPhone.
(I'll get flamed but it has great audio quality and more space and battery life than my iPhone)
 
monke said:
In one word: Ouch.

The Xbox 360's being called the 'cheap PS3' lately, now the Zune's could be called the 'cheap iPod'. Microsoft's rep is going down fast.

I could see them trying to cover up this news by releasing a new beta of Windows 7.
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Thats what Microsoft does, puts other products down just to look goood.

If Microsoft says that the PS3 is cheap, I would highly disagree. I know a lot of people who have a 360 and the disc drive is broken. All new gaming systems besides the 360 now use the disc drive that doesn't have the tray. (just like Macs have been for years) The reason Microsoft had to lower the price of the 360 is because its so cheap.
 
I called my cousin, his Zune is locked and he's TORQUED! Funny enough, this weekend he asked me about buying a Macbook. I think this will probably put him over the edge!:D

SLC
 
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